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Russia after Stalin. By Isaac Deutscher. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) MR. DEUTSCHER'S new little book written with commendable speed has been overtaken, even so, by events. But......
Travels With A Tent In Western Europe. By R. M.
Lockley. (Odhams. 15s.) ANYONE, it is said, can write an autobio- graphy ; but those who can write an auto- biography which is also good literature are very few. The same might......
Trusts And Foundations : A Select Guide. Compiled By Guy
W. Keeling and edited by Thomas Landau. (Bowes and Bowes. £2 2s.) IT is a curious fact that in this country, with its long tradition of charitable work, there is no standard......
The History Of Persia Is Very Like Its Land- Scape,
high fertile crops isolated by surround- ing hills, where the mainroads of Asia run across the passes. These threads and this diversity are both well given in Professor......
Laughter And Applause. Anecdotes For Speakers. Compiled...
Laing. (George Allen & Unwin. 8s. 6d.) MOST of us, by the time we have reached the age for speech-making, have amassed a fair stock of amusing stories and quotations ; but when......
The Northern Marches Are The Counties Bordering England...
gomery, Shropshire, Denbighshire, Cheshire and Flint. Mr. Cledwyn Hughes is a native of a valley on the Welsh side and to him this is obviously the spot beloved over all. There......
Gloriana's Glass. Compiled By Alan Glover. (the Nonesuch...
6d.) FOR the first time since the war, the None- such Press has resumed the publication of books embodying a high degree of crafts- manship, printed on rag paper in limited......
Adam : Twenty-first Anniversary Issue. (2s. 6d.) It Is An
achievement these days for a little review to reach its majority, and it would be churlish to refuse to recognise this success of Adam and its editor. They have had a birth- day......
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